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Definition of Checkmated
1. Adjective. (chess) Having a king in check with no possible move to escape check, thus losing the game. ¹
2. Adjective. (figuratively) Suffering a personal loss with no obvious chance to escape the loss. ¹
3. Verb. (past of checkmate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Checkmated
1. checkmate [v] - See also: checkmate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkmated
Literary usage of Checkmated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"checkmated on every point, the Jacobites acquiesced without even a murmur in ...
Mar also gradually realised that he had been completely checkmated, ..."
2. Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke, G by Arthur Patchett Martin (1893)
"... Lowe and the Council checkmated ON the base of the statue of Sir Richard Bourke
in Sydney may be read these words:— He established religious equality on ..."
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